Ash-sifting coal-hod.



UNlTED STATES PATENT Enron.

LAXVRENOE ST. CLAIR, OF MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE, ASSIGNOR OF TlVO-THIRDS TO \VILL H. lVARD, OF SAME PLACE.

ASIH-SIFTING COAL-HOD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 632,884, dated September 12, 1899.

Application filed February 14, 1899. Serial No. 705,482. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LAWRENCE ST. CLAIR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ham chester, in the county of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire, have in vented a certain new and Improved Ash-Sitting Coal-Hod; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the To art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to portable ash-sifting devices, and may be easily carried into eliect by a reconstruction of the ordinary coalhod, the object of the invention being to provide ready means for extracting the ashes from a hod or pail, (in which they are carried from a stove or heater to a barrel,) leaving any good coal or cinders therein which may have been mingled with the ashes clear and free from dirt and ready for burning and to effect this separation of the ashes from the cinders without spreading dust and dirt over the person.

The invention consists in the novel construction of various parts of the portable ashsifting device, as particularly pointed out in the following specification and claims and clearly illustrated in the drawings accomo panying and forming a part of the same, of

which- Figure 1 is a sectional elevation showing a portion of an ash-barrel and its cover, and a coal-hod resting thereon and constructed in 5 accordance with my improvements.

is a detached elevation of my improved hod. Fig. 3 is a detached plan view of the bottom of my improved coal-hod. Fig. 4 is a crosssection of the same, taken centrally through the opening for the discharge of ashes. Fig. 5 is a perspective view showing the slide, as when inverted, which is adapted toclose the opening in the bottom of my improved ashsifting device. Fig. 6 is a plan of a flanged 5 ring adapted to be secured to the cover of an ash-barrel and to receive the bottom of my improved ash-sifting device and hold it in proper place over the opening in said cover. Fig. 7 is a sectional elevation showing a portion of my improved conical screen or sift- 111g grate and means for oscillating the same.

Fig. 2.

Similar reference-letters designate corresponding parts in all the views.

A represents the staves of an ash-barrel, and a are its hoops. -5 5 Bis the cover for the barrel having an opening, as seen at b, and O is a flanged ring or plate, the flange 0 of which rises to a height of half an inch, more or less, and is made of proper form to receive the bottom of my improved hod, as shown in Fig. 1. This ring or plate C serves to steady the ash-sifting device while shaking the ashes through into the barrel.

Myimproved device as here represented is made to resemble an ordinarycoal-hod D, and a few inches from its bottom and at a contracted portion (Z, to which the concaved bottom of an ordinary hod is secured, 1 place my improved conical oscillating grate E, mounted in a suitable flanged support F, which may be riveted or otherwise rigidly secured to said hod. To this grate is attached a bar e, which passes out through a horizon.- tally-elongated opening d and is provided at its free end with a pivoted handle e, which may be dropped down, as shown in Fig. 2, when not in use.

Directly underneath the grate-support F is soldered or otherwise secured a plate G, the

bottom of which is inclined, so that it is deeper at one part than another, as seen in Figs. 1, 3, and 4, and in its deeper portion is provided an opening g, through which the ashes sifted from the grate E are permitted to drop into the barrel. A suitable slide H, adapted to close this opening g, runs in suitable guideways g, properly secured to the u nder surface of the bottom G, said slide H being provided with a rod h, attached to its under surface, as seen best in Fig. 5, and extending out through the side of the hod, as seen in Fig. 1, by which said slide may be operated as may be required1l. 6., while conveying ashes from a stove or heater through 5 the house to an ash barrel, said slide will be adjusted, as seen in Figs. 1 and 3-thus preventing the escape of ashes through the opening g of the bottom G, and when the barrel is reached and thehod has been placed in proper 10o position on the ring 0 or cover B of the barrel the rod it will be drawn out, thus moving the slide H and uncovering the opening g in the bottom G, whereupon the contents of the hod may be shaken down by manipulating the grate E in the manner previously described, which operation leaves only the cinders in the hod, the ashes having dropped through into the barrel.

In order that the hod may remain stationary and not turn upon the ring 0 while the grate E is being shaken, the Ways 9 extend forward beyond the depressed portion of the bod-bottom G, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, and stand astride of a tongue or projection c, which is provided upon the ring 0, said tongue 0 rising between said ways and serving the purpose desired.

Having described myimprovements,what I claim is 1. An ash-hod having an inclined bottom, a horizontally-rotating conical sifting-grate secured within the hod above the bottom, an openingin the bottom of said hod and a sliding cover adapted to close the opening, substantially for the purpose set forth.

2. Ahod or other ash-conveying device having a horizontally-elongated opening in its side, an inclined bottom for said hod having an opening near one side, a sliding cover for the same,- a horizontally rotating conical grate loosely mounted above said bottom, a bar rigidly attached to the grate and extending through the elongated opening in said hod, and a pivoted handle secured to the end of the bar, substantially for the purpose set forth.

3. The combination with a detachable cover for ash-barrels, having a central opening, a flanged ring surrounding said opening, and an upwardly-projecting tongue secured to the ring; of a receptacle adapted to fit within the ring, and provided with an opening in its bottom, a rotating grate in the receptacle above the bottom, a sliding cover for said opening, and projections on the receptacle adapted to stand astride of the tongue on the flange, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

4. The combination with a detachable cover for ash-barrels, having an opening, a flanged ring surrounding said opening, and an upwardly-projecting tongue secured to the ring; of a receptacle adapted to fit within the ring, and provided with an opening in its bottom, a rotating grate in the receptacle above the bottom, guides secured to the bottom near the opening and extending forward beyond the body of the receptacle on each side of the tongue, and a gate sliding in the guides to close the opening, substantially as described. In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

LAWVRENOE ST. CLAIR. Witnesses:

J. B. THURSTON, EMILE H. TARDIVEL. 

